According to market research firm Mordor Intelligence, nearly 1 trillion liters of water were consumed by AI data centers in 2025.
I'm sorry, the market research firm is named what now?
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Tech Bros love naming their stuff after evil Tolkien shit. And they seem to do it totally unironically - as if they read the books but were confused about which side the good guys were.
Did you see the post yesterday about Thiel unironically arguing that Mordor was the optimal society in the story and Gandalf was just a confused old guy.
Be aware there is no good original source for this. Just articles referencing each other.
It's a tough one because he is already known to be that twisted of a person, so it's almost not even interesting to know if he actually said it.
His actions provide evidence that this is consistent with his morally bankrupt value system
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Here a neat fact: Palo Verde, a nuclear power station in Arizona that generates so much power that it is the 2nd largest power plant in the United States is cooled entitrely by the treated waste water from Phoenix.
This is to illustrate that Data centers can be designed to be environmentally friendly, its just the greedy corpo pigshit that demands they suck drinking water out of water tables to power AI that nobody wants.
they are also doing it the cheapest way possible, the power doesnt come for free , apparently datacenters arnt paying for it at all.
The AI apologists in this thread are wild to me. It's too bad they don't have access to some kinda tool that could give them information on how water tables work.
They’re in fuck around mode, they’ll eventually find out how it works.
Their plan is: they fuck around, and let the rest of us find out.
Our lack of drinking water is a sacrifice they are willing to make.
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Probably. This can get dangerous.
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Fuck all these thirsty clankers and their apologist simps.
I'm personally hoping for the day when AI and LLMs become more expensive for business than real people.
Already happened, doesn't seem to matter.
it is already, they are just using VC money.
How long until angry farmers attack a data center?
For the record, we use several orders of magnitude more gallons of water keeping grass and golf courses alive. This is why I hate reports with large, absolute numbers. It sounds like a lot. It's really nothing.
Yeah and that's also bullshit
Super El nino will make it worse too.
Albania showed us the way. Doing nothing is a choice. Vive la revolución ✊🏼🇦🇱
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